That is not acceptable. That is a slow roll, dragging your feet as I described in the beginning.

We needed to act, we needed an effective transportation security operation.

It should be 95 or 99 percent.

The mandate by Congress was pretty clear. It should not take two years to get this moving, which it has done.

I have no problem with the Federal Government setting standards.

I was one of the people who helped create TSA.

Not in our wildest imagination did we ever think you would get to 66,000.

I want people to have a living wage. This is not about wages.

We are the stewards of taxpayer dollars.

Let me say at this conjuncture, I have never advocated going back to having the airlines do that or take away the government's responsibility.

I know also that they are the last for service of some of that equipment, for answers from TSA which never come.

In fact, the January 2013 TSA report, 'Screening Partnership Annual Report,' says none of the three major goals towards implementing private screening were completed.